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 </div><p></p>A building high above the speedy<br>
Busy vehicles of mindless drive.<br>
It was built to serve as safety<br>
For citizens; to be their hive.
<p>This building bears feets of thousands<br>
who never dare to cross a road.<br>
And has been the home of hundreds<br>
Who hold their bowls that seem to bode.</p>
<p>Along its path, I saw a lady<br>
Beside a man whose wounds were raw,<br>
As her bug-infested blouse scurried<br>
Away flies from her stenching jaw.</p>
<p>Her face pale, her hair was unkempt,<br>
And her bowl she placed down to reap,<br>
While a boy a girl she carried<br>
Cradling their infant heads to sleep.</p>
<p>She dared all singing a true ode<br>
To past living of blissful gains,<br>
And a dirge of teary feelings<br>
To current dawn of lifeless pains.</p>
<p>These had won the souls of many<br>
As she smiled at sound of coins thrown.<br>
While she prayed for souls of blankness<br>
For her eyes blast of life has blown.</p>
<p>Her ready smiles had won her friends<br>
And has worked to attract a soul.<br>
Her infants’ cries helped to unleash<br>
Pregnant kindness upon her bowl.</p>
<p>In this way she seemed more happy<br>
And this spur a gladness in me.<br>
No sooner I had a feeling<br>
When my gladness was made to flee.</p>
<p>My mind raced back to last night news:<br>
‘In two days’, the minister said.<br>
‘We will clean this state off nuisance;<br>
All beggars we shall put to bed.’</p>
<p>I fought hard to hold my tears back<br>
As tomorrow she never know<br>
That her smiles will attract nothing<br>
Even blessings humans may show.</p>
<p>The cries of her tender children<br>
will have no bond against a soul.<br>
And her odes and dirges daring<br>
Will have no coins to fill her bowl.</p>
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